- Generous contributions appreciated
- December 2, 2008
- This is the time of year when we all give thanks and count our blessings. Therefore, this letter is to thank all of those folks who have involved themselves in saving the tabs from aluminum drink cans for the Payson Womans Club.
- What has happened to town’s concern for youth
- December 2, 2008
- For months, our town leaders have pushed hard to get support of their proposal to lease town property to the YMCA. Their main concern, they claimed, was the town’s youth. “It’s all about the children. They need a place to go and something to do to stay out of trouble. We owe it to them.”
- False information being spread about water problem
- December 2, 2008
- In a recent letter to the editor, Sam Schwalm continues to make accusations and spread fear and false information to citizens in the Pine-Strawberry Water Improvement District. Contrary to Mr. Schwalm’s statement that I have been aggressively trying to silence any discussions, I wish to open the discussion further and to its broadest context so the citizens of our community may be well-informed with complete and factual information of all the events that have transpired.
- Observation about the economy
- December 2, 2008
- The $700 billion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is all told, a drop in the liability bucket which comes close to $2.7 trillion.
- Two local businesses pay it forward to Senior Thrift Store
- December 2, 2008
- Gene and Betty Neumann of Neumann Paint, 1006 N. Beeline Highway, provided a much-needed facelift to the Payson Senior Thrift Store by organizing an exterior paint project and furnishing all the paint.
- What really happened to the Rainy Day Fund
- December 2, 2008
- Recently there has been much said about the town’s current financial problems.
- Longhorns’ triumph leaves us breathless
- December 2, 2008
- Excuse us. We really are gonna write this. Just gotta catch our breaths.
- I once knew a man whose eyes grew four sizes overnight
- November 28, 2008
- What’s the most surprised you’ve ever been?
- FAN Club thanks supporters
- November 28, 2008
- The FAN Club would like to extend a sincere thank you to all the people who bought 50/50 and couch tickets, and who helped sell 50/50 tickets at all of the Payson High School home games.
- Thanks for voting
- November 28, 2008
- I would like to thank all of people who turned out and exercised their right to vote in this last election. I would also like to thank everyone for their support during and after my campaign.
- God favors nations that honor Him
- November 28, 2008
- As I sit here practicing Christmas carols for the upcoming holiday season, my mind jumped to a billboard on the side of a bus. The news clip CNN showed was of a happy-go-lucky guy in a Santa suit, lifting his right hand to the words that said, “Why believe in god? Just be good for goodness sake.”
- The ‘Y’
- November 28, 2008
- Now that the “Y” has gone away, to perhaps return another day, it’s time to see what happened, and just why.
- Radiothon raises nearly $10,000
- November 28, 2008
- “Hip, hip, hooray!” to everyone who helped make our fifth annual radiothon, “Up, Up and Away with Domestic Violence” a success. Chapman Auto, KMOG and KRIM deserve an extra hooray for supporting us all day long in our effort to collect funds for children who have been involved in domestic and family violence.
- ‘Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body’
- November 28, 2008
- In a letter bearing the inscrutable heading: “Votes against school override; YMCA we an aberration,” (Nov. 18 Roundup) the writer stated: “The votes against the school override and the YMCA were an aberration and cast our town as being anti-youth and against progress.”
- Hospice care was exceptional
- November 28, 2008
- Having read Bonnie Pease’s letter I felt compelled to share the experience my family and I had recently with RTA Hospice & Palliative Care.
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